Have any of you seen any movies where people use nasel snuff? I know there may be older stories where characters in books take a pinch. Let me know what you have read and/seen.

Dead Names: A History of the Necronomicon. The author describes a friend of his who was rather eccentric and took snuff. This was also what originally prompted me to look into snuff as a tobacco alternative.

Two that come to mind right away are Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter as well as Inglorious Bastards from Quentin Tarantino. In Sweeney Todd, there is a scene where (I don’t recall his name) the British actor who played Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter films takes a pinch before leaving a tavern to walk the streets of London, presumably during the early 17th century when the streets would have been quite foul smelling. In Inglorious Bastards, Brad Pitts character regularly takes pinches from a snuffbox that looks like a German style box, presumably he picked this up in Germany where the film is set during WWII. I have always wondered if in his back story he suffered from some ailment or cancer of the throat because he has a large scar across his neck, but this could also be a battle wound. His character is from the Appalachian region of the United States so chewing or taking scotch snuff would have been part of his cultural upbringing.

It is nice to see accurate tobacco use in time pieces. Gangs of New York includes quite a lot of this with people smoking clays, rustic looking cigars, and lots of plug tobacco chewing. Daniel Dey Lewis who is known for getting extremely absorbed in to his roles was complained about by actress Cameron Diaz because his breath smelled constantly of chewing tobacco as he chose to actually chew plug tobacco on set rather than fake it or use something non tobacco to place in his mouth to give the impression of a mouth full of chaw

I just watched a old film last night. The king of the lepercaun had a snuff box he took a pinch from.

DARBY O’GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE

Great stuff! I should be busy for awhile.

I just watched the ACORN TV (A British production) called Jericho set in the 1870s in Yorkshire England. In it they are building a railway and it is set in a railway camp. Nearly every adult male in the show is smoking a pipe. Most are clays, but a few are of the briar type. One supporting character has his pipe with him in almost every shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2GQBGgBUh4

British TV series Lark Rise to Candleford has a character who snuffs.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077744/

Also, snuff is mentioned fairly often in the novels of Philip K. Dick

3:10 to Yuma (new version) scene in the saloon when one of the deputy’s posse in the background takes a pinch.

A character in “A rose in winter” by Kathleen Woodiwis takes snuff. I don’t know how exactly this is mentioned, as my girlfriend had been reading the book and pointed it out to me.

In the new true grit movie pipes are smoked.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett in the episode The Golden Pince-Nez Sherlocks brother Mycroft snuffs and uses snuff to solve the case,  in the book Sherlock uses cigarette ashes.

Other than Inglorious Bastards, I haven’t seen snuff in any film.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

At one hour and seven minutes in.

Tuco comes upon a military coach while crossing the desert, filled with four dead soldiers so he thinks  ; he rummages through their pockets emptying wallets of money and  pocket watches, he finds a  snuff box and smells it, opens it smiles and takes a pinch . Then Bill Carson wearing an eye patch on the edge of death become conscious and tells Tuco the cemetery where they buried gold. 

http://snuffhouse.com/discussion/813/snuff-in-the-movies
http://snuffhouse.com/discussion/7822/snuff-in-movies

http://snuffhouse.com/discussion/7471/classic-movies-that-partake-in-snuff-snuff-bottle-comnection/p1

The long way round. Where Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman go on a road trip on motorcycles though Russia, Europe, Siberia and a whole lot of places. After one of there bike breaks down a few locals come and help them out, the locals give Ewan and Charlie a few pinches of snuff and they then give the locals some whisky miniatures. Charlie then talks about how his grandfather was a heavy snuff user and never smoked tobacco and lived until he was 95. Great show if youre into motorbikes and funny rd trip doccos

The Wind in the Willows … pipes, cigars and snuff all in one family friendly cartoon:

@Cobguy are there snuff references in wind of the willows I haven’t read it since I was a kid some 20 years ago

Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (book and accompanying TV series). Jonathan Strange ask several times for Kendal Brown.

@Aamon … there is a judge in one scene ( who is sentencing Mr. Toad) that pulls out his snuff box for a pinch.  

@JackGrave, they made it into a television series?! I have read that book several times over.

@JosephJames BBC aired it last year, I am not sure about air dates at BBC America. Of course its available over internet in less legal sources.

Maybe PBS will show it. They regularly carry BBC programming. I could see it making a nice season of Masterpiece Theater. Certainly, I will look for it, even if I buy it on DVD.

@JosephJames Also available on Amazon (US) starts from 29.99 USD for DVDs or 49.99 for Blu-Ray discs. Jack

A tv show that’s awesome, ill have to keep an eye out for it, I hope they got a good artist though and graphic engineer. I’m sure it will bring up some old memories. I remember the movie they did in 1996 with Stephen Fry, ahaha yep just googled it he’s the Judge. Classic :P

Thank you, JackGrave. I will look for it! I may even break the book out again. I read a lot but usually have one favorite I reread in the Fall of the year.  Edit: Best Buy has it on Blu-ray for $14.99

I haven’t seen this one posted anywhere on the site. An old Pathe’ video on snuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFxa1KT4gM

@JackGrave @JosephJames, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is either on Netflix or Amazon prime. I don’t remember, because I came home and the wife was watching it. I watched a bit of it, but didn’t see any snuff or mention of snuff. I only watched a bit of an episode though.

I enjoyed the book quite a bit, Psicko. Reminds me of Dickens’ writing, somewhat. I found a few episodes on YouTube, but I plan on buying the DVD.

@JosephJames, I’ll have to check out the book.